Chapter Summaries

Lin Jiufeng killed Wen Yuan, a Ninth Restriction expert, and returned to the Scripture Pavilion to cultivate as the Wen Family and Supreme Dao Sect threatened the Feather Transformation Sect. Recalling the battle triggered Heaven-Defying Comprehension, which granted him a Dao Rain.

• Lin Jiufeng gave Bai Yunfei Wen Yuan's Dragon Hide Drum and refused to use it to advance to the Ninth Restriction.
• Wen Xinyun thanked Lin Jiufeng and warned him that the powerful Wen Family would retaliate, while Bai Yunfei confirmed Wen Family survivors had gone to report Wen Yuan's death.
• Lin Jiufeng returned to the Scripture Pavilion with Bai Ling and began secluded cultivation as she guarded the door.
• Lin Jiufeng recalled his battle with Wen Yuan and triggered Heaven-Defying Comprehension, comprehending a Dao Rain.

A Dao Rain covered the Feather Transformation Sect in a vision of the Great Daos, drawing everyone into Enlightenment. Lin Jiufeng refined his previous insights and comprehended the Ephemeral World Painting, ending at Eighth Restriction perfection as the three little ones neared breakthroughs.

• A sudden Dao Rain brought dark clouds, lightning, and a Heaven and Earth Scroll that Lin Jiufeng recognized as a chance to comprehend the Great Daos.
• Lin Jiufeng cast the Rain Character Art, drawing down immense spiritual energy, and urged everyone to look at the sky and study the Daos within it.
• Bai Yunfei, Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, Yue Dashan, and Bai Ling entered Enlightenment as they observed the Great Daos.
• Lin Jiufeng used the Chronicle of Ages to refine his earlier insights and comprehended a new Great Dao called Ephemeral World Painting.
• Lin Jiufeng reached Eighth Restriction perfection but did not break through to the Ninth Restriction before the rain stopped.
• Lin Jiufeng saw that Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan were close to breaking through.

After the Heaven and Earth Scroll and spiritual-energy rains, Little Fox began purifying her bloodline, Bai Yunfei broke through the Ninth Restriction, and Lin Jiufeng helped him recruit newly awakened spirits into the Feather Transformation Sect. The sect gained three hundred Mountain Spirits and Wild Monsters as disciples, beginning a new generation.

• Little Fox told Lin Jiufeng that Azure Flame was burning away impurities as her bloodline reverted to its ancestors.
• Lin Jiufeng revealed that Bai Yunfei had broken through the Ninth Restriction after comprehending the Heaven and Earth Scroll.
• Bai Yunfei celebrated his breakthrough with Lin Jiufeng and worried that the Feather Transformation Sect lacked disciples.
• Lin Jiufeng showed Bai Yunfei how the spiritual-energy rains had awakened an ancient tree, and Bai Yunfei accepted it into the sect as a disciple named Bai Liu.
• Bai Yunfei accepted other awakened spirits, and the Feather Transformation Sect gained three hundred Mountain Spirits and Wild Monsters as disciples within a day.

Bai Yunfei’s breakthrough to the Ninth Restriction revived the Feather Transformation Sect and made its strength known throughout the Cultivation World. The Supreme Dao Sect decided to spread a rumor that the sect possessed a breakthrough treasure, hoping to turn the world against Bai Yunfei while its Supreme Elders remained in Secluded Cultivation.

• Bai Yunfei accepted the Mountain Spirits and Wild Monsters as disciples, bringing the Feather Transformation Sect’s numbers to three hundred and putting his three senior disciples to work teaching them.
• As Lin Jiufeng read and cultivated in the Scripture Pavilion, Bai Yunfei openly led the disciples in training and revealed his Ninth Restriction cultivation to visiting investigators.
• News of Bai Yunfei’s breakthrough spread through the Cultivation World, shocking cultivators and drawing attention to the Feather Transformation Sect’s conflict with the Wen Family.
• The Supreme Dao Sect Master learned that Bai Yunfei had reached the Ninth Restriction and agreed with the hook-nosed elder to spread a rumor that the Feather Transformation Sect held a treasure or secret art that enabled rapid breakthroughs.
• The Supreme Dao Sect planned to use the Wen Family’s name to rally forces against Bai Yunfei and hoped the Feather Transformation Sect would be pressured until the Supreme Elders emerged in three months.

Lin Jiufeng comprehended and cultivated the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique while Bai Yunfei struggled with senior cultivators demanding the Feather Transformation Sect’s supposed breakthrough treasure. Lin Jiufeng identified the Supreme Dao Sect as the likely source of the rumor, but Bai Yunfei still needed a plan to handle the pressure.

• News spread that the Feather Transformation Sect’s Immortal Treasure had enabled Bai Yunfei to break through to the Ninth Restriction, drawing cultivators to the sect.
• Lin Jiufeng’s accumulated insights triggered Heaven-Defying Comprehension, and he comprehended the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique.
• Lin Jiufeng cultivated for three days atop the Scripture Pavilion and gathered his sword qi into a single sword within his dantian.
• Bai Yunfei asked Lin Jiufeng for help after senior experts at the Eighth Restriction Peak repeatedly demanded the method or treasure behind his breakthrough.
• Lin Jiufeng explained that the experts were desperate for a breakthrough and suspected the Supreme Dao Sect had spread the rumor to make the Feather Transformation Sect suffer.
• Bai Yunfei asked Lin Jiufeng to devise a plan, leaving the problem unresolved.

Lin Jiufeng used White Fox Bai Ling’s inherited memories to find methods for breaking through the Ninth Restriction and began secluded cultivation. Ten days later, he successfully reached the Ninth Restriction.

• Lin Jiufeng told Bai Yunfei to return to the Golden Summit Great Hall and hold off the senior elders while he considered how to handle their demands.
• White Fox Bai Ling shared inherited memories containing hundreds of methods for breaking through the Ninth Restriction, and Lin Jiufeng memorized them.
• White Fox Bai Ling said she had awakened cultivation knowledge up to the Tenth Restriction and could share her inherited memories only with Lin Jiufeng.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to break through the Ninth Restriction while Bai Yunfei delayed the elders, then entered secluded cultivation.
• After ten days of secluded cultivation, Lin Jiufeng successfully reached the Ninth Restriction.

After reaching the Ninth Restriction, Lin Jiufeng demonstrated his Sword Dao by cleaving mountains and filling the valley with a sea of sword qi. He invited challengers to cross the Sword Sea for methods of breaking through, then explained to White Fox that an approaching Cultivation Golden Age would soon make such methods commonplace.

• Lin Jiufeng emerged from seclusion and told Bai Yunfei to gather the Feather Transformation Sect's disciples to witness his demonstration.
• Lin Jiufeng cut a vast riverbed through the mountains with one sword, then filled it with seawater formed from his comprehended Great Daos.
• The disciples gained insights from Lin Jiufeng's swords, while elders outside the sect were swept back by the Sword Sea.
• Lin Jiufeng announced that anyone who crossed the Sword Sea could obtain a method of breaking through the Ninth Restriction, but troublemakers would be killed.
• Lin Jiufeng told White Fox that cracks between heaven and earth were bringing in spiritual qi and that a Cultivation Golden Age was approaching.

Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Great River Sword Art from the Sword Sea and stabilized his newly attained Ninth Restriction while cultivating in the Scripture Pavilion. Outside, aging Eighth Restriction experts gathered at the Sword Sea, drawn by the promise of a breakthrough method, and one old man finally leaped in to test it.

• Lin Jiufeng told White Fox that spiritual energy was surging and urged her to cultivate, and she vowed to surpass him.
• Lin Jiufeng observed the Sword Sea he had carved and used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to learn the Great River Sword Art.
• Lin Jiufeng cultivated in the Scripture Pavilion, stabilized his realm, and successfully entered the Ninth Restriction.
• Eighth Restriction experts gathered at the Sword Sea, where a man's attempt to scoop up its water triggered sword qi that blasted him away.
• Tian Suanzi identified Lin Jiufeng as the swordsman who carved the Sword Sea and affirmed that it concealed a method to break through the Ninth Restriction.
• An old man leaped into the Sword Sea to seek the breakthrough method.

Old Yang entered the Sword Sea after burning away his remaining lifespan, hoping to obtain a way to break through to the Ninth Restriction. He passed its trial, received a breakthrough method, and succeeded; afterward, he went to the Scripture Pavilion to ask Lin Jiufeng to meet him.

• Old Yang restored himself to his prime by burning his lifespan, drew the Dragon Slaying Treasure Saber, and entered the Sword Sea to challenge the Ninth Restriction.
• Old Yang fought off the Sword Sea's waves with his lifetime saber technique and Great Saber Rolls On, earning a breakthrough method after blocking its attack.
• Lin Jiufeng revealed that he had placed several hundred Ninth Restriction breakthrough methods in the Sword Sea for cultivators who proved their strength.
• Old Yang received the method, began his breakthrough inside the Sword Sea, and successfully entered the Ninth Restriction.
• Old Yang sensed Lin Jiufeng's aura, went to the Feather Transformation Sect's Scripture Pavilion, and respectfully asked to meet him.

Old Yang broke through the Ninth Restriction and came to thank Lin Jiufeng, then offered to join the Feather Transformation Sect. Bai Yunfei appointed him Law Enforcement Elder, leaving the sect with three Ninth Restriction masters as it faced the Supreme Dao Sect and the Wen Family.

• After breaking through the Ninth Restriction, Old Yang sensed Lin Jiufeng and Bai Yunfei’s powerful Dao Rhyme and went to the Scripture Pavilion to thank Lin Jiufeng.
• Lin Jiufeng welcomed Old Yang, shared tea, and explained that the Ninth Restriction involved understanding how to coexist with heaven and earth.
• Old Yang offered to join the Feather Transformation Sect as an elder and fight for it despite the danger posed by the Supreme Dao Sect and the Wen Family.
• Lin Jiufeng accepted Old Yang’s offer and summoned Bai Yunfei.
• Bai Yunfei welcomed Old Yang and appointed him Law Enforcement Elder, declaring that the three of them were the Three Giants of Feather Transformation Sect.

Lin Jiufeng discovered that Sword God Emperor Willow was the surviving posthumous heir of the Emperor Family and witnessed a segment of his past. The memory ended with Uncle Shao claiming that cultivation had fifteen restrictions, far more than Lin Jiufeng had known.

• Bai Yunfei and Old Yang left the Scripture Pavilion to discuss the Feather Transformation Sect's future.
• Lin Jiufeng read how three branch lines destroyed the Emperor Family by tricking its main branch into a Demon Pit, where a Demon King killed them.
• Lin Jiufeng found a note that a servant had rescued a posthumous child of the Emperor Family and suspected the child was Sword God Emperor Willow.
• Heaven-Defying Comprehension revealed a memory of young Emperor Willow training with Uncle Shao beside a river.
• Uncle Shao said cultivation had fifteen restrictions and that people in their world could cultivate only as far as the Tenth Restriction, shocking Lin Jiufeng.

Lin Jiufeng witnessed Emperor Willow’s rise from a prodigious child to a Tenth Restriction Sword God, then gained insight into his Immortal Slaying Sword Strike and began refining his own sword techniques. Meanwhile, Swordsman Old Yang’s breakthrough drew crowds to the Feather Transformation Sect, where cultivators continued to fail at the Sword Sea.

• Emperor Willow advanced rapidly through the restrictions, created his own Sword Dao, and reached the Tenth Restriction at age twenty.
• Emperor Willow returned to the Emperor Family’s Ancestral Land and killed the Demon King with Immortal Slaying Sword Strike, earning the title of Sword God.
• Lin Jiufeng comprehended Emperor Willow’s sword technique through Heaven-Defying Comprehension and began correcting and improving his own sword techniques.
• News of Swordsman Old Yang’s Ninth Restriction breakthrough spread, drawing cultivators and would-be disciples to the Feather Transformation Sect.
• Eighth Restriction cultivators entered the Sword Sea hoping to break through, but they were repeatedly sent flying out.

The Supreme Dao Sect’s Four Ancestors emerged from secluded cultivation and set out to destroy the Feather Transformation Sect. When they arrived and challenged its Ninth Restriction cultivators, Bai Yunfei and Swordsman Old Yang realized they could not match them and flew to find Senior Brother.

• The Supreme Dao Sect’s Sect Master held back the elders who demanded an attack, saying the Supreme Elders would deal with the Feather Transformation Sect themselves.
• The Four Ancestors emerged from secluded cultivation, dismissed the Feather Transformation Sect’s three Ninth Restriction cultivators as weak newcomers, and departed to destroy the sect.
• The Four Ancestors reached the Feather Transformation Sect and roared for its Ninth Restriction cultivators to come out and die.
• Bai Yunfei and Swordsman Old Yang recognized the Four Ancestors’ strength and flew to the Scripture Pavilion to find Senior Brother.

Lin Jiufeng defeated the four Supreme Dao Sect ancestors with a single sword strike that stretched thirty thousand li, opening the heavens and bringing spiritual qi down to the Feather Transformation Sect. As the sect celebrated the new influx of spiritual qi, Lin Jiufeng returned to cultivation and set his sights on the Tenth Restriction.

• Bai Yunfei and Old Yang warned Lin Jiufeng that four Ninth Restriction experts from the Supreme Dao Sect were approaching, but he said one sword strike would be enough.
• Lin Jiufeng summoned living sword-rain and unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Strike against the Four Ancestors of the Supreme Dao Sect.
• The sword strike evaporated all four ancestors and cleaved open the Heaven and Earth Curtain, releasing vast spiritual qi into the Human World.
• Cultivators near the Feather Transformation Sect experienced breakthroughs and renewed vitality as the spiritual qi spread, and Bai Yunfei went to calm the celebrating crowd.
• Lin Jiufeng told Bai Yunfei and Old Yang that a senior had passed the sword art to him, then returned to watching the rain and considered reaching the Tenth Restriction.

Lin Jiufeng’s Immortal Slaying Sword Strike killed the Supreme Dao Sect’s four peak Ninth Restriction Ancestors, stunning the world. While he returned to secluded cultivation, the Supreme Dao Sect resolved to avoid provoking the Feather Transformation Sect, and the Wen Family gathered to assess Lin Jiufeng.

• Lin Jiufeng reflected on his sword strike, judged that it had touched the threshold of the Tenth Restriction, and resumed absorbing spiritual energy in the Scripture Pavilion.
• The Supreme Dao Sect’s Sect Master and elders received confirmation that their four Ancestors had been vaporized and agreed not to provoke the Feather Transformation Sect for now.
• The Wen Family’s upper echelons gathered to discuss bringing Wen Xinyun back and asked Wen Yang to explain the Feather Transformation Sect’s situation.
• Wen Yang identified Lin Jiufeng, who lived in seclusion in the Scripture Pavilion, as the key to the Feather Transformation Sect’s rapid rise.

The Wen Family council discussed Lin Jiufeng’s strength and Wen Xinyun’s importance to their plans. Ancestor Wen ordered Wen Yang to visit the Feather Transformation Sect and try to persuade Wen Xinyun to return.

• Wen Yang described Lin Jiufeng’s rapid rise and the growth of Bai Yunfei and Wen Xinyun under his guidance, alarming the Wen Family’s Ninth Restriction experts.
• Ancestor Wen proposed that Lin Jiufeng’s power came from a cultivation technique that stored energy in a Divine Bridge before allowing its cultivator to rise rapidly.
• Wen Yang warned that Lin Jiufeng was too powerful for the Wen Family to confront directly, while other members insisted Wen Xinyun had to return so Ancestor Wen could leave the Mystic Realm.
• Ancestor Wen condemned the family’s past mistreatment of Wen Xinyun and its handling of Wen Yuan, and Wen Ting admitted he had mishandled the matter.
• Ancestor Wen told Wen Yang to apologize to the Feather Transformation Sect and appeal to Wen Xinyun; he promised Wen Yang the patriarch position if he succeeded, but Wen Yang declined the prospect.
• Ancestor Wen declared that the coming Great Era of Contention was an opportunity the Wen Family had to seize, and the family members vowed to advance its development.

Lin Jiufeng reached the middle stage of the Ninth Restriction and later used his Primordial Spirit to teach Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan their respective techniques in dreams. After transmitting the lessons, he returned to his body and continued cultivating.

• Lin Jiufeng broke through to the middle stage of the Ninth Restriction, greatly increasing his strength and deepening his understanding of the Great Dao.
• Wen Xinyun visited Lin Jiufeng and explained that her Unique Eye had helped her break through to the Seventh Ban without side effects.
• Wen Xinyun asked for guidance in the Grasswood Sword Technique, and Lin Jiufeng promised to teach her that night.
• Lin Jiufeng divided his Primordial Spirit and entered the dreams of Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan to demonstrate their techniques.
• Lin Jiufeng returned his Primordial Spirit to his body after completing the dream lessons and continued cultivating.

Lin Jiufeng recorded his cultivation methods for the Feather Transformation Sect, then comprehended the Human Dao and advanced to the later stage of the Ninth Restriction. He began fusing the sword arts he had learned into a sword art of his own, called the Human World Sword, and sought to temper it through the mortal world.

• Lin Jiufeng wrote down his cultivation methods, sword arts, and Dao Arts and placed them prominently in the Scripture Pavilion for the Feather Transformation Sect’s disciples.
• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Human Dao, and his Chronicle of Ages absorbed it as his cultivation advanced to the later stage of the Ninth Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng reflected that the sword arts he had learned belonged to earlier masters and decided to forge a sword art of his own from them.
• Lin Jiufeng fused the sword arts within himself while visions of ordinary people’s joys, hardships, and lives appeared around him.
• Lin Jiufeng named his new creation the Human World Sword and realized it had to be tempered within the Human World.

After emerging from a month of seclusion, Lin Jiufeng learned that Wen Yang of the Wen Family had been waiting at the Feather Transformation Sect with a vast apology gift. Wen Xinyun agreed to meet him, while Lin Jiufeng stayed behind.

• Lin Jiufeng emerged from seclusion after cultivating the Human World Sword, and White Fox told him the Wen Family had been at the sect for half a month.
• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that Wen Yang had offered cultivation techniques, treasures, mines, and three unconditional favors in exchange for meeting Wen Xinyun.
• Lin Jiufeng and Bai Yunfei agreed that Wen Xinyun should decide whether to meet Wen Yang herself.
• Wen Xinyun agreed to meet Wen Yang, saying the gifts would help the sect and trusting Lin Jiufeng to protect her.
• Bai Yunfei left with Wen Xinyun to meet Wen Yang, while Lin Jiufeng chose not to go.

Wen Yang told Wen Xinyun how the Wen Family’s sealed Mystic Realm and its Unique Eye Seal Breakers shaped her mother’s life. Wen Xinyun learned that her mother had sacrificed her cultivation, and the chapter ended with Wen Yang revealing that she had fallen into suspended death.

• Lin Jiufeng used his Primordial Spirit to let White Fox eavesdrop on Wen Xinyun and Wen Yang’s meeting.
• Wen Yang explained that the Wen Family had been trapped in its Mystic Realm for five thousand years after it was sealed.
• Wen Yang told Wen Xinyun that Unique Eye descendants were raised as Seal Breakers and dispersed their cultivation at the peak of the Ninth Restriction to weaken the seal.
• Wen Yang revealed that Wen Xinyun’s mother had reached the peak of the Ninth Restriction at eighteen, sacrificed her cultivation, and later became pregnant with Wen Xinyun.
• Wen Yang said Wen Xinyun’s father disappeared while searching for the Painted Skin Scholar, and the Wen Family declared him dead after his jade token shattered.
• Wen Yang told Wen Xinyun that her pregnant mother had fallen into suspended death after Wen Ting refused to keep searching for her father.